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SHENZHEN, China, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pudu Robotics, a global leader in service robotics, proudly announces that its AI-Powered Robotic Sweeper, the PUDU MT1, has won the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025. This achievement marks the company's third Red Dot accolade, recognizing the MT1 for its innovative design, cutting-edge technology, and transformative impact on large-scale cleaning, thereby reinforcing Pudu Robotics' status as a pioneer in intelligent automation.
The Red Dot Award is one of the most esteemed design competitions worldwide, commending products that exemplify outstanding creativity, functionality, and user-centric innovation. The PUDU MT1 distinguished itself among thousands of global entries for its seamless integration of advanced AI, robust operational capabilities, and intuitive design, specifically tailored for demanding large-scale environments.
Launched in September 2024, the PUDU MT1 tackles the challenges of traditional cleaning in expansive spaces with unmatched efficiency. Its advanced features include:
- AI-Powered Trash Recognition: Utilizing advanced AI algorithms, the PUDU MT1 accurately identifies and categorizes waste, optimizing cleaning operations by activating only when necessary.
- Smart Spot Cleaning: With its wide scanning field, the MT1 efficiently patrols large areas, ensuring immediate trash removal while maximizing cleaning efficacy.
- Dynamic Environment Adaptability: Equipped with Lidar SLAM and VSLAM technology, the MT1 navigates complex spaces with full spatial awareness, adjusting to layout changes seamlessly.
- Proactive Dust Control: The high-flow negative pressure exhaust system prevents secondary pollution, promoting a healthier cleaning environment.
- User-Friendly Design: An intuitive touchscreen interface simplifies operation, while its modular design allows for easy maintenance and quick intervention when needed.
- IoT Integration: Seamless connectivity with elevators, gates, and smart devices enables fully autonomous multi-floor operations.
Pudu Robotics has consistently set benchmarks in robotics design. In 2017, the company's first delivery robot won the Red Dot's highest honor, the "Best of the Best" award, and in 2023, the PUDU CC1 commercial cleaning robot was similarly recognized with a Red Dot Award for Product Design. Most recently, the PUDU SH1, an intelligent upright scrubber dryer, earned the iF Design Award 2025, underscoring the brand's relentless innovation across diverse applications.
The PUDU MT1's Red Dot Award highlights Pudu Robotics' ongoing mission to advance intelligent automation, delivering transformative cleaning solutions that adapt to the evolving needs of modern industries.
About the Red Dot Design Award
The Red Dot Award was founded in 1955 and has become one of the most respected design awards worldwide. It honors groundbreaking creativity, practical functionality, and superior craftsmanship. Recognized works stand at the forefront of international design innovation, embodying unmatched quality and market influence.
About Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics, a global leader in the service robotics sector, is dedicated to enhancing human productivity and living standards through innovative robot technology. With a focus on R&D, manufacturing, and sales of service robots, Pudu Robotics holds over a thousand authorized patents worldwide, encompassing a wide range of core technologies. The company's robots have been widely adopted in various industries, including dining, retail, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment, education and manufacturing. To date, Pudu Robotics has successfully shipped over 90,000 units to a variety of markets, with a presence in more than 60 countries and regions worldwide. For more information on business developments and updates, follow PUDU on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.
SHENZHEN, China, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pudu Robotics, a global leader in service robotics, proudly announces that its AI-Powered Robotic Sweeper, the PUDU MT1, has won the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025. This achievement marks the company's third Red Dot accolade, recognizing the MT1 for its innovative design, cutting-edge technology, and transformative impact on large-scale cleaning, thereby reinforcing Pudu Robotics' status as a pioneer in intelligent automation.
The Red Dot Award is one of the most esteemed design competitions worldwide, commending products that exemplify outstanding creativity, functionality, and user-centric innovation. The PUDU MT1 distinguished itself among thousands of global entries for its seamless integration of advanced AI, robust operational capabilities, and intuitive design, specifically tailored for demanding large-scale environments.
Launched in September 2024, the PUDU MT1 tackles the challenges of traditional cleaning in expansive spaces with unmatched efficiency. Its advanced features include:
- AI-Powered Trash Recognition: Utilizing advanced AI algorithms, the PUDU MT1 accurately identifies and categorizes waste, optimizing cleaning operations by activating only when necessary.
- Smart Spot Cleaning: With its wide scanning field, the MT1 efficiently patrols large areas, ensuring immediate trash removal while maximizing cleaning efficacy.
- Dynamic Environment Adaptability: Equipped with Lidar SLAM and VSLAM technology, the MT1 navigates complex spaces with full spatial awareness, adjusting to layout changes seamlessly.
- Proactive Dust Control: The high-flow negative pressure exhaust system prevents secondary pollution, promoting a healthier cleaning environment.
- User-Friendly Design: An intuitive touchscreen interface simplifies operation, while its modular design allows for easy maintenance and quick intervention when needed.
- IoT Integration: Seamless connectivity with elevators, gates, and smart devices enables fully autonomous multi-floor operations.
Pudu Robotics has consistently set benchmarks in robotics design. In 2017, the company's first delivery robot won the Red Dot's highest honor, the "Best of the Best" award, and in 2023, the PUDU CC1 commercial cleaning robot was similarly recognized with a Red Dot Award for Product Design. Most recently, the PUDU SH1, an intelligent upright scrubber dryer, earned the iF Design Award 2025, underscoring the brand's relentless innovation across diverse applications.
The PUDU MT1's Red Dot Award highlights Pudu Robotics' ongoing mission to advance intelligent automation, delivering transformative cleaning solutions that adapt to the evolving needs of modern industries.
About the Red Dot Design Award
The Red Dot Award was founded in 1955 and has become one of the most respected design awards worldwide. It honors groundbreaking creativity, practical functionality, and superior craftsmanship. Recognized works stand at the forefront of international design innovation, embodying unmatched quality and market influence.
About Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics, a global leader in the service robotics sector, is dedicated to enhancing human productivity and living standards through innovative robot technology. With a focus on R&D, manufacturing, and sales of service robots, Pudu Robotics holds over a thousand authorized patents worldwide, encompassing a wide range of core technologies. The company's robots have been widely adopted in various industries, including dining, retail, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment, education and manufacturing. To date, Pudu Robotics has successfully shipped over 90,000 units to a variety of markets, with a presence in more than 60 countries and regions worldwide. For more information on business developments and updates, follow PUDU on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.
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Pudu Robotics' PUDU MT1 Wins Prestigious 2025 Red Dot Award for Product Design
The New Home Robot Embodies LG Electronics' Zero Labor Home Vision, Introducing Physical AI to Manage the Time-consuming Tasks of Daily Housework
News Summary:
- LG Electronics will showcase LG CLOiD™, an AI-powered home robot at CES 2026, representing its "Zero Labor Home" vision where intelligent machines handle everyday chores through robotics and connected home integration.
- LG CLOiD is a robot that uses AI and vision-based technology to perform household tasks like cooking and laundry, connecting seamlessly with LG's ThinQ ecosystem to automate home life.
- By unveiling LG CLOiD and its new actuator technology, LG takes a major step toward AI-driven homes, combining robotics, smart appliances, and Physical AI to make housework effortless and time-saving.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) today announced LG CLOiD™, an AI-enabled home robot that will be demonstrated publicly for the first time at CES 2026. Designed to perform and coordinate household tasks across connected home appliances, CLOiD is intended to reduce the time and physical effort required for everyday chores. The system represents LG's latest development in AI-based home robotics and smart home platforms, building on the company's Self-Driving AI Home Hub (LG Q9), and the ThinQ ecosystem.
Demonstrating Household Automation in a Real-World Home Setting
At CES 2026, the company will show LG CLOiD operating in diverse home environments. In one scenario, the robot retrieves milk from a refrigerator and places a croissant into an oven to prepare breakfast. After household occupants leave, LG CLOiD initiates laundry cycles and folds and stacks garments after drying. These tasks display LG CLOiD's ability to understand the user's lifestyle and precise appliance control
Hardware Designed for Operation in Living Spaces
LG CLOiD consists of a head unit, torso with two articulated arms and a wheeled base equipped with autonomous navigation. The torso can tilt to adjust its height, enabling the robot to pick up objects from knee level and above.
Each arm has seven degrees of freedom, matching the mobility of a human arm. The shoulder, elbow and wrist allow forward, backward, rotational and lateral motion, while each hand includes five independently actuated fingers for fine manipulation. This configuration allows LG CLOiD to handle a wide range of household objects and operate in kitchens, laundry rooms and living areas.
The wheeled base uses autonomous driving technology derived from LG's experience with robot vacuums and the LG Q9. This form factor was selected for stability, safety and cost-effectiveness, with a low center of gravity that reduces the risk of tipping if a child or pet makes contact.
LG CLOiD's Head as a Mobile AI Home Hub
The head functions as a mobile AI home hub. It is equipped with a chipset – which functions as LG CLOiD's brain – a display, a speaker, cameras, various sensors and voice-based generative AI. Collectively, these elements allow the robot to communicate with humans through spoken language and "facial expressions," learn the living environments and lifestyle patterns of its users and control connected home appliances based on its learnings.
Vision-Based Physical AI: VLM and VLA
At the core of LG CLOiD is the company's Physical AI technology, which combines:
- Vision Language Model (VLM) — converts images and video into structured, language-based understanding
- Vision Language Action (VLA) — translates visual and verbal inputs into physical actions
These models have been trained on tens of thousands of hours of household task data, enabling LG CLOiD to recognize appliances, interpret user intent and execute context-appropriate actions such as opening doors, or transferring objects.
Integration with ThinQ and ThinQ ON
LG CLOiD's capabilities expand significantly through its integration with LG's smart home ecosystem, including the AI Home Platform "ThinQ™" and Hub "ThinQ ON." This seamless connectivity allows LG CLOiD to orchestrate a wider range of services across LG's various appliances.
LG Actuator AXIUM: Robotics Components for Physical AI
Alongside the home robot, LG is introducing LG Actuator AXIUM™, a new brand of robotic actuators for service and robots.
An actuator serves as a robot's joint, integrating a motor that generates rotational force, a drive that controls electrical signals and a reducer that regulates speed and torque. As one of the most critical and cost-intensive components in a robot, actuators are widely regarded as a strategic upstream technology in the emerging era of Physical AI.
LG has accumulated world-class component technology through its market-leading home appliance business. This expertise in component technology is expected to be the foundation for delivering key competitive advantages in actuators, such as lightweight and compact design, high efficiency and high torque. In addition, LG's modular design technology enables customizing, multi-variety production that is necessary for manufacturing advanced robots, which require dozens of types of actuators.
Roadmap Toward AI-Driven Homes
LG plans to continue developing home robots with practical functions and forms for housework. Simultaneously, the company will expand the application of its accumulated robotics technology to home appliances, creating categories such as "Appliance Robots" like robot vacuums, and "Robotized Appliances" like refrigerators with doors that open automatically as a person approaches. The ultimate goal is to create an "AI Home" where housework is entrusted to AI appliances and home robots, allowing people to rest, enjoy themselves and spend their time on more valuable activities.
"The LG CLOiD home robot is designed to naturally engage with and understand the humans it serves, providing an optimized level of household help," said Steve Baek, president of the LG Home Appliance Solution Company. "We will continue our relentless efforts to achieve our Zero Labor Home vision, making housework a thing of the past so that customers can spend more time on the things that really matter."
Visitors to CES 2026 (January 6-9) can experience the tangible benefits of LG CLOiD and the Zero Labor Home through a variety of real-life scenarios at LG's booth (#15004, Las Vegas Convention Center).
About LG Electronics Home Appliance Solution Company
The LG Home Appliance Solution Company (HS) is a global leader in home appliances and AI home solutions. By leveraging industry-leading core technologies, the HS Company is committed to enhancing consumers' quality of life and promoting sustainability. The company develops thoughtfully designed kitchen and living appliance solutions and has recently integrated LG's Robot Business Division to incorporate advanced robot technologies into its home solutions. Together, these products offer enhanced convenience, exceptional performance, efficient operation and sustainable lifestyle solutions. For more news on LG, visit www.LGnewsroom.com.
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LG ELECTRONICS PRESENTS LG CLOiD HOME ROBOT TO DEMONSTRATE "ZERO LABOR HOME" AT CES 2026
LG ELECTRONICS PRESENTS LG CLOiD HOME ROBOT TO DEMONSTRATE "ZERO LABOR HOME" AT CES 2026
LG ELECTRONICS PRESENTS LG CLOiD HOME ROBOT TO DEMONSTRATE "ZERO LABOR HOME" AT CES 2026
